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First Recording Session
A few times over the past decade, I had heard that Aaliyah had her first recording session for this album, during a 1993 blizzard in Chicago and that very song, was "Old School". For years, it did not make sense to me how she would have been in the middle of a blizzard in the summer of 1993, yet recorded the album for 8 to 8 1/2 months, starting in mid-1993. A bit of original research, but I do like to piece things together or connect the dots. I mistakenly added September 1993, as that was the earliest date Chicago would have such conditions and May 1994 as the end date, based on previously given release date of June 13, 1994. The date was correct to May 24, 1994, so when you account for post-production lead time on a debut album, that just didn't make sense. An album released in May 1994, wouldn't have been recording into the same month.

Nor did it make sense, how in the title track, May 5, 1993 was referred to prominently as a date, yet recorded well after that "from September".

What I did find on a few occasions, were retrospective accounts, that highlighted activity between R. Kelly, Blackground/Barry Hankerson, and Aaliyah from late 1991 to early 1993. It was given, that the weekend prior to Aaliyah's 14th birthday in January 1993, a 13-year old Aaliyah was invited to Chicago to briefly record with R. Kelly as a practice run. During this time, was reportedly a blizzard in Chicago. This was the weekend of January 9-10, 1993, I found from doing some research. This explains the inclusion of January 1993 in the article, as although Aaliyah explicitly stated that they recorded for 8 months, she likely did not include the first session from January 1993, in personally believing that the first session from January 8-10, 1993 did not have much relevance, as possibly being seen as a one-off session.

January 1993 only applies to track 12, Old School. The recording period of May 1993 to February 1994, covers the other tracks on the album. In some other retrospective accounts, it was referred to as, that Aaliyah's recording sessions were winding down by the time she was preparing to film the Back and Forth video, in January 1994. This correlates very well with the February 1994 end date. and fits the lead time needed for post-production work before release in May 1994 (although excessive). In May 1993, she completed her spring semester and officially began album work. I had wondered for a long time the timeline, but it does now make more sense, as Chicago having a blizzard in May seemed very peculiar, yet had been referred to many times as when the first song was recorded.--Carmaker1 (talk) 23:17, 7 August 2018 (UTC)

First week sales numbers were 38,000.
Not to be ignorant, but the references to Aaliyah's first week sales numbers are completely incorrect. The reference only shows the chart for June 11, 1994, and does not in any way tell the reader what the first week sales figures were for "Ain't Nothing But A Number." This is the actual magazine itself and on page 97, you can clearly see under the 'Between The Bullets' column by Geoff Mayfield, that she debuted at #24 with sales of 38,000 units.

https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/90s/1994/BB-1994-06-11.pdf

So why are persistently feeding inaccurate information without any proof to back it up.

WolfSpear04 (talk) 20:28, 28 August 2021 (UTC)